Cool Photoshop tutorial: Make pictures look like models

My friend Steve sent me this great little tutorial that lets you manipulate landscape photos to look like pictures of models: http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/. Here’s a sample I did of a picture of the Seattle skyline. Not a great example because it already looked a little like a model.

Before:
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After:
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September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment 

Pictures of me teaching

Here’s me teaching a group of high school students:


May 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment 

George and stuff

I don’t know ’bout you, but everytime I see Bush speak I think of stuff in his hands. Here are some examples:
Regular:
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Dreamin’ of a sub:
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Playin’ with putty:
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Summoning his evil:
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Yeah yeah, I should have cleaned these up, and where’s the cat’s cradle, but whatever.
December 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Manet and the Execution

I’ve been busy at work helping to get a site together (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/Manet/index.htm) for a show up at MoMA. Here’s a contemporary re-interpretation of the piece:

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November 7, 2006 | Comments Off 

Start a Story: Flowchart Adventure

If you haven’t seen startastory.com before, you should. A website by some lads in England based on collaborative projects, it has fun little things people can do and share. One of the newer activities is a Flowchart Adventure. Here’s mine:
http://www.startastory.com/project/flowchartadventure/illustrated24.html

October 12, 2006 | Comments Off 

Nerdly Nerding: The Gallery Talk

So one of the things I do at work is walk people around the museum and tell them stuff.
Here’s a picture of me working my mojo:

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However, when I do this, I channel the spirit of Randy “Macho Man” Savage:

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Funny article about the man born as Randy Poffo: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52287

September 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Snap Crackle Pop = Insta-Fatwa

I thought this picture from Yahoo news could be the funniest thing of the day:
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But then my friend Nini took it one step further:
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Death to Imperialist cereals!

September 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Bush and Blair summit on Middle East

Important photos from today’s summit with Tony Blair and George Bush.

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As Tony Blair listens to a reporter’s question, W plays with Silly Putty.

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Angered by a question, Bush smashed a can of Coors against his forehead.

July 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Spaceballs II

So I ditched the homepage setup, but in memory of the old image, here’s a new one, even more appropriate given current events:

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July 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Ah, the joys of the Internet

A technology that allows people that connect in ways never possible before…. or for a guy to build an entire site devoted to drawings of Conan O’Brien fighting a bear (www.conanvsbear.com). Here’s my submission, which breaks the rule against digitally altered photos.

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June 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Start a story – finished

A fun little site, Start a Story, has a project where people submit pages to a story (some quite odd, truth be told). Mine is part of Choices.

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April 24, 2006 | Comments Off 

NJ Transit train signs: A new Delphi?

Some bits of knowledge from the NJ transit train signs:

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March 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Sing it, Bush

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February 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment 

Erin’s punch out

My dear little niece as a PunchOut villain!

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February 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment